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Show FOR "NORMAL" SHOES. " Normal Shoes for Normal Feet" is the slogan of the nation-wide campaign to persuade women to adopt common-sense common-sense footwear. The movement has the indorsement of the Young Woman 's Christian association. As a part of the "drive" in Gennantown, Pa., there was an exposition during which all the latest styles "in deformities of the foot, so prevalent among worsen of to-jday" to-jday" were shown. All kinds of feet and all kinds of shoes were exhibited, and motion pictures were employed to supplement the display. i In the national campaign, according to announcement, maov makes of shoes will be examined and alphabetical lists will be made of the dealers who carry footwear "conforming to the natural lines of the foot." These lists will be sent to associations throughout the country. Foreseeing success for the campaign, Miss Elizabeth Van Sant, an official of the association, said that "not many years ago we gave onr admiration to the small, tightly laced waist. Now we laugh at it. Tomorrow we shall be equally amused at the pointed toe and the high heels that tilt tho humau foot to an angle of a horse 's hoof. Tlx I modern woman's shoe serves as a crutch rather than a foot covering." I Miss Van Sant said that during the i war many women came to the low heel shoe, and for the first time in their lives found real foot comfort, "and if the war had continued, we might have lost the pencil-toe shoe entirely." It is admitted that women naturally demand beauty In shoes nnd will not be content with footwear that is not graceful and pretty, no matter how comfortable it may be. Tho task, therefore, is to find a shoo thnt combines com-bines comfort nnd beauty, and when j tho Y. W. C. A. shall have found su-h Ian ideal, it will tell all its members about it. |